A context-aware framework for the efficient integration of femtocells in IP and cellular infrastructures

Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Makris, Prodromos ^a   Nomikos, Nikolaos ^a   Skoutas, Dimitrios N ^a   Vouyioukas, Demosthenes ^a   Skianis, Charalabos ^a   Zhang, Jie ^b   Verikoukis, Christos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Context aware; Femtocell; HetNet; Relay; RRM

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR INFRASTRUCTURE; CONTEXT-AWARE; CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKING; HETNET; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; RELAY; RRM;

BENCHMARKING; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

FEMTOCELL;

EID: 84878102496     PISSN: 16871472     EISSN: 16871499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1687-1499-2013-62     Document Type: Article

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